TWO BABY GIANT PANDAS!

http://m.voanews.com/a/2928933.html

The next few days are critical.

America's Zoo: The National Zoo.

Washington, DC.

Such beautiful animals!

This is very good news.

If they live, at age four they go back to China.

One of the two giant panda cubs is very sick and may not make it.

Perhaps instinctively, mama bear has also rejected taking care of it.

Oh no...that's so sad. I wonder if the zoo will try to nurse it to health?

They are trying.

Meanwhile, MaMa Giant Pandas in the wild would nurse one twin and abandon the other. The zoo had been trying to switch them out every four hours, successfully for a while.

PETA, as only it can, is objecting, saying Mama should pick and the other should be left to die.

My head hurts.

See:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/25/peta-condemns-national-zoo-splitting-panda-twins/32337775/

^Mine, too. There's just... no logic sometimes. They're not breeding dinosaurs, they're saving the lives of precious animals, which is 'supposed' to be their ... ahem ... prime "directive?" "Mission?" "Facade?"  Where'd I put that Naproxin?

They also conveniently forget the Giant Pandas are on loan from China. Doing as PETA wishes would doubtless result in their immediate recall. And rightly so.

I know.   Trying to save infant giant pandas is pretty freakin' ethical treatment if you ask me!

Good Lord.... I wonder what their true motive is? I read a story where they abducted a dog feom someones porch and it was later euthanized before the owners could locate the animal.

Nefarious organization.

I think their motive is to remove all human interference with animals. While I do understand that, it's just not possible now. The least we can do is try to repair what we've done.

 

Wait, would that be the most we should do? I'm confused. Thanks, Terp.

 https://twitter.com/NationalZoo/status/636614118330372096

See also:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/26/giant-panda-cub-dead-smithsonian-national-zoo/32418851/?csp=breakingnews

:'( so sad to read this. Hopfully the remaining panda will grow up to be strong. It always amazes me that animals can sense that some thing is wrong with their offspring.

See also:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/26/giant-panda-cub-dead-smithsonian-national-zoo/32418851/?csp=breakingnews

Poor panda. 

 

I recall Knute the polar bear was rejected by his mother, and a trainer stepped in and took over.